• Next Hike Information
• Directions To Lucent Whippany Lobby
• Hiking Photographs
• Hiking Trail Event History
• Bears In New Jersey

• Hiking Date and Status:
• May 18th
• Hike has been rescheduled from May 17th to May 18th.
• Hike is on schedule. Last Update: May 18th.
• Customary Practice:
• Plan for a three to four hour hike
• Bring a lunch and plenty of water
• Bevarages supplied at hike's end (soda and beer)
• Attendance:
• Please inform us of your attendance (respond to email address jlcet@concentric.net or jlciccone@agere.com
• Waiting time is 15 minutes from hike time for individuals attending
• Hiking Trail Precautions:
• Tick and bug spray recommended.
• Weather Conditions:
• Partly cloudy and temperatures in the upper 60's
• Last Update: May 18th.
• Meeting Time and Location:
• 10:30 AM at the Lucent Whippany Lobby or 11 AM at the Parking Area Closest to the Cottage Gift Shop

• Directions to Hiking Trail:
• Additional Directions From Mapquest.
• Hiking Trail Distance, Difficulty, and Agenda:
• Easy Hiking
• Approximately 2 miles, about 2 1/2  hours for hike and gardens
• The Hike will be conducted first with lunch during the hike
• Then a stroll through the Gardens and Shops, expected to be informal and not necessarily a group activity
• Hiking Trail Attractions
• Various Gardens (Perennial, Evening, Vegetable, Cottage, Crescent, etc.)
• Various Trees (Dogwoods, Hollies, Hemlocks, Cedars, etc.)
• Whippany River
• Patriot Trail
• Joseph Haggerty Education Center
• Carriage House
• Cottage Gift Shop

Coming from Holmdel going north on the GSP:

• Take GSP to exit 142, Rte 78 east.
• Bear right at the toll booths, the two right most toll booths take you to Rte 78 east.
•  Go about 1 mile and take exit 54, Hillside exit.
• Take the first right to Hillside.
• Bear right at the intersection and go over the bridge.
• Immediately after the bridge take a right to Rte 78 west.
• Make no turns or exits until you reach exit 1B (about 15 miles ), Rte 78 west turns into Rte 24 west in about 5 miles.
• While on Rte 24 west take exit 1B, Rte 511, Whippany Road.
• The Lucent Technologies facility is on your right, about 3 miles.

• Carris Hill Hike Nov. 1999 (Jeanine Pan)
• Turtle Pictures (Joe Ciccone)
• Pyramid Mountain Hike Oct. 2001 (Vladmir Oksman)
• Sandy Hook Hike April. 2002 (Bill Jackwicz)
• Wawayanda State Park Hike Sept. 2002 (Monica Cheng and Pi-Chun Chen)
• Carris Hill Hike Oct. 2002 (Nan Feng and Pi-Chun Chen)

1998:

Trail #23 - Sherman Hoffman Sanctuary/Patriot's Trail

Trail #27 - Watchung Reservation

Trail #37 - Hartshorne Woods

NY Harriman - Bear Mountain

1999:

Trail #16 - Pyramid Mountain

Trail #22 - Jockey Hollow

NJ Kitatinny Park

Trail #11 - Norvin Green State Forest

Trail #19 - Mahlon Dickerson Reservation

Trail #12 - Carris Hill

2000:

Trail #20 - Allamuchy Mountain State Park

Trail #25 - Merrill Creek Reservoir

Trail #21 - Jenny Jump State Forest

Trail #5 - Mount Tammany

2001:

Trail #28 - Great Swamp

Trail #14 - Terrace Pond

Trail #37 - Hartshorne Woods

Trail #36 - Cheesequake State Park

Trail #16 - Pyramid Mountain

2002:

Trail #38 - Sandy Hook (Gateway National Recreation Area)

Lewis Morris County Park

Trail #25 - Merrill Creek Reservoir

Trail #17 - Wawayanda State Park

Trail #12 - Carris Hill

Co-Founders, 1998:

Joe Ciccone

Chu Ng

Zhibing Pan